Michael Porter @MichaelPorter@qoto.org

Look at these beautiful images of Saturn’s moon #Titan as seen by #JWST!

Titan is a really bizarre world. It’s the only moon in the Solar System with a dense atmosphere. Its surface is covered in rivers, lakes, and seas that are made of hydrocarbons like methane and ethane.

In these infrared views, we can see through the hazy atmosphere to pick out surface features, but also see clouds in the northern hemisphere.

Read more: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/early-highlights/webb-keck-telescopes-team-up-to-track-clouds-on-saturns-moon-titan

#astronomy #astrodon #SolarSystem

It's getting crowded up there...

"Spatial density of #LEO space environment based upon actual tracked objects, clearly showing COSMOS 1408 debris band (lower left to upper right)."

From a 2022 AMOS conference paper by Oltrogge, Alfano and Hall: https://amostech.com/TechnicalPapers/2022/Poster/Oltrogge.pdf

#SpaceDebris

The brightness night sky, alive with its own natural light, is often dominated by artificial skyglow. While there are quantitative ways of measuring the brightness of the night sky, subjective estimates of sky quality have their own particular value. Read more about one such approach called the "Bortle Scale".

https://www.darkskyconsulting.com/blog/understanding-the-bortle-scale

@atomicpoet it's not the programmers fault. They had no choice. I was one of them.

In the early naughties we tried developing systems that connected on other ports and spoke different protocols.

But our corporate users could not use them. They were on networks locked down by paranoid security engineers.

Only port 80 was allowed. Or port 443.

So we had to rewire it to fit where corporate security firewalls allowed.

And thus, paranoid security engineers forced everyone to make everything look like web traffic. Which of course makes the whole system less secure.

"Tech workers need unions, just look at Twitter."

Great stuff from my #TradeUnion.

https://prospect.org.uk/news/tech-workers-need-unions-just-look-at-twitter

#JoinAUnion

I cringe with every die-uh-spora that should've been a die-ASP-ora.

#microPeeve

Thinking about the time the tour guide at Independence Hall in Philadelphia told us that no country in history had been more effective at freeing itself from a monarchy than the USA, and my French boyfriend spent the rest of the tour just muttering "I don't see any guillotines" under his breath

Every time my kids tell me about the 8 planets, I am generationally obligated to say "when I was your age there were 9 planets."

Really didn't know I'd spend my entire adult life being gaslit by thermostats

So, dear #chemistry #chemiverse, I have created a group called @chemistry. If you tag the account in your toot it should auto boost the toot, to see those boosted toots in your timeline, follow the group. Hope that makes sense.

@scottsantens just because something works or is good, people won't necessarily do it.

it's been proven for decades now that schools starting later lets students learn better but hardly anywhere does it

Alberta as a new sovereign. Uh oh.

Here's why the executive coup in Alberta is a threat to democracy and why Danielle Smith is counting on populist Western grievance politics to win her the 2023 election.

https://davidmoscrop.substack.com/p/the-new-sovereign-of-alberta

I’m so confused. Santa has always been Asian. I met him in the internment camps, and he was definitely Japanese.

Waxing Moon 60.3%

Yep, it's a bit cloudy here.

#moon #moonhour #waxinggibbous

Not one of the 33 companies participating in a big trial of a 4-day workweek (with no loss in pay) is returning to a standard 5-day schedule. Productivity went up. Revenue went up. Absenteeism and turnover both went down.

"The benefits are significant."
https://www.livemint.com/companies/people/want-a-four-day-work-week-show-the-results-of-research-to-your-boss-11669783677563.html

If you still protect yourself and others from #COVID, here are two valuable accounts to follow. Same if you think #COVID is over - follow these. As a climate scientist, I always thought our reaction to climate change would be better if it were more acute. COVID proved that premise to be absolutely wrong as we have killed millions of ourselves and continue to be resistant to behavioral changes. @TRyanGregory
@fitterhappierAJ
https://mstdn.science/@TRyanGregory/109433193586556500

@TRyanGregory The bacteria that cause cavities will never go away, but we should all still brush our teeth.

The best part about the LRT commission saying it's pretty much all because of the mayor and city staff lying to the public and acting in bad faith is that we just had an election with the new version of the same guy, propped up by all the same staffers.

This stupid city.

A security expert told me my password should NOT be the name of my cat.
So I went to my cat and said, "Well, TvKhUo7UmYH49Jtn4kJj, I guess it's back to the drawing board."